European Space Historyhas just postedthis awe-inspiring movie poster - corresponding orange - blue launch photo of a historical space outcome that take place on November 26th way back in 1965 .
Fifty year ago , France launched its first artificial satellite to humbled Earth celestial orbit on a Diamant A rocket from the Joint Center for Special Weapons Testing of Hammaguir , Algeria .
With this step , France became the 6th nation — after USSR , USA , Canada , UK and Italy — to have a orbiter in orbit , and the third to launch its own . The military orbiter was in the beginning called A-1 ( the French Army ’s first satellite ) , but was later was renamed to Astérix , after the popular French comic character .
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The satellite reached it planned orbit , but its antenna were damaged during the separation of the fairing , so the satellite remained dumb . Nonetheless , Asterix is still with us due to the comparatively high height of its ambit , and is not expected to re - enrol Earth ’s atmosphere for the next few hundred long time .
Here ’s the full shot of the launch .
Photo : European Space History / ESA
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